JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 483

ty-five cents, for ordinary licenses, erroneously paid
to the State.

Approved April 5,1878.

CHAPTER 308.
AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore to purchase the whole or any part
of the second preferred mortgage bonds and cou-
pons of the Western Maryland Railroad Com-
pany, and funded certificates representing such
coupons, and to issue its stock of certificates of
indebtedness so far as may be necessary for the
said object, to an amount not exceeding the sum
of four hundred thousand dollars.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be and it is hereby authorized and em-	City author- ized to pui-
powered to purchase the whole or any part of the bonds of the Western Maryland Railroad Company	cbase
issued under the mortgage of said company, known
as the second preferred mortgage, and also the cou-
pons issued with said bonds, whether detached or
not detached, and the funding certificates issued for
such coupons, at such price as may be agreed upon
between the said company and the Finance Com-
missioners of said city.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That in order to ena-
ble the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to
purchase the said bonds, coupons and certificates, it is hereby authorized to issue its certificates of in-	Issue certifi- cates of in- debtedness
debtedness, commonly known as city stock, to an
amount not exceeding the sum of four hundred
thousand dollars, upon such terms and conditions
and in such manner as the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore may hereafter provide by ordinance ;
but no part thereof shall be issued, nor shall any